Synonyms:
hedge, hedgerow
Meaning: a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
hedge, fudge, evade, put_off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
Meaning: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
Usage examples
'It isn't that I want to hedge,' he said.
There is a hedge at the back of your house, is there not?
He reached the hedge bordering the widow's garden, when he stood still.
He turned sharp to the right, dashed up the hill, cleared a hedge and was gone.
Almost at the same time a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge side.
Halfway up the scarp was a dark horizontal line of bushes, something like a hedge.
I caught one of them--the lad Fenning--in the act of scrambling through the hedge.
He drove it over the hedge, and over the trees, and up to the skies, and out of sight.
The tinkering sounds began again, and a spurt of falling debris rattled in the leaves of the hedge.
Having got behind the hedge, and put him in the light, I took a shot at him and brought him down plump.